hello i like reading books then go to see the movie the book is always better i think anyway :wave:

I like true crime books personally or books which can improve you.

I.e. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis, photography books etc.

Computer manuals and local history books :cry:

It's slowly wearing me down...

Just about anything with words:lol:
By preference, Urban Faerytales (Charles De Lint, Terri Windling, etc.), Bantock's 'Griffin and Sabine' stuff, Cyberpunk (William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, etc), only the best Fantasy (i'm very very picky), Young Adult (His Dark Materials trilogy, Lemony Snicket, etc) some horror (again v picky), some fiction. I've just picked up a Brother Cadfael to try out. All the Horrible Histories etc etc Books on local ghosts and legends, ok i'll stop:lol: :lol:

Not books: BBC Wildlife, Mark's FHM if he leaves it lying around, Currently doing a project about plants used by early Britons for dyes, medicine, ritual, so every herbal under the sun plus Flora Britannica.

If desperate: the back of the toothpaste tube or shampoo bottle in the bathroom!:lol: :lol:

A majority of the stuff I read is non-fiction - Archaeology books, Mathematics, Physics, Chaos Theory, etc. along with stuff like Michael Moore (Stupid White Men), Naomi Klein (No Logo), George Monbiot (Captive State) and other socio-anarchic-liberal-anti capitolist-consumerism-corporate etc etc etc. When it comes to fiction, I can be very picky within genres:

Fantasy - I've only really ever read Tolkien (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and some of the History of ME)
Sci-Fi - again, I've only read Frank Herbert's Dune books
Horror - some Stephen King, James Herbert, HP Lovecraft (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is possibly one of my favourite horror stories)

Others - Will Self is superb, but I'll give pretty much anything a go

I just love reading :D

...........I read all sorts ..........need to get back into it...haven't read for ages....last book I read was Stupid White Men

Originally posted by Miss_60
...........I read all sorts ..........need to get back into it...haven't read for ages....last book I read was Stupid White Men

Yes I read that a couple of months back. I got the UK version from the bargain bookstore on the Moor.

I thought it would make me laugh...but it made me flippin' angry instead!

Why did it make you mad Abby? What's the book about?

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Why did it make you mad Abby? What's the book about?

It was a while since I read it, and I've forgotten many parts, but it goes into detail about sleaze and corruption that surrounds the current Bush administration and some of the scandals they've gotten away with.

It explains how Bush stole the last election (thanks to friends and close relatives in high places striking thousands of registered voters off). And then continues how 'Stupid White Men' running the US have betrayed the middle and lower class in favour of the elite.

The writer presents the book in a funny way, but it made my blood boil (the content, not the writing style). I found it more shocking than funny.

I'll read anything other than fiction, with the exception of Mr Men books.

I am not particularly a reader type person. If it is available on video and I like it enough I may be arsed to read the books - Like Dune :D but then I do love Sting!!! phwoar

Anyway. I generally stick to reference books and such due to my studies. Lots of historical stuff, magickal texts, folklore, supernatural. I steer well clear of the mills and Boon.

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by Hodge
A majority of the stuff I read is non-fiction - Archaeology books, Mathematics, Physics, Chaos Theory, etc. along with stuff like Michael Moore (Stupid White Men), Naomi Klein (No Logo), George Monbiot (Captive State) and other socio-anarchic-liberal-anti capitolist-consumerism-corporate etc etc etc.

For those of who'd like to read Naomi Klein's No Logo, download a copy here:

Important: Right click the link and choose Save Target As... to download it to your computer, unless you want to open it in another browser window. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader to read it.

www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/Klein/klein01.pdf

I think it's the full book, but it was scanned in and run through a word processor, so there are a few spelling errors (Nike spelt as Mike etc) and there are none of the photos and diagrams of the original. Buy the original if you like it - it's a very intetesting read.

Fight the Power, Brothers and Sisters! ;)

sci-fi/fantasy/humor stuff.
douglas adams, robert rankin, terry pratchett...

Some of my favourite books, all read or flicked through reletaively recently (last 12 months or so)


Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake, Slaughterhouse 5, Sirens of Titan
Thomas Pynchon - Vineland, Gravity's Rainbow
Will Self - Great Apes,
Jeff Noon - Nymphomation, Pollen
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling - Holy Fire, Neuromancer
William Gibson - Neuromancer
JG Ballard - Crash, High Rise
Robert Heinlein - Job, a comedy of justice
Robert Rankin - The Brentford Books
Douglas Adams - H2G2, Holistic Detective Agency
Terry Pratchett (haven't read any in a while tho) - Strata, Dark side of the sun
Jospeh Heller - Something Happened, Catch 22
Luke Rhinehart - Diceman, Wim
John Irving - Cider House Rules, Garp, Hotel New Hampshire
Cristopher Brookmyre - Quite Ugly One Morning

Non-Fiction:
Robert Anton Wilson - Promethues Rising
Tor Norretanders - the User Illusion
Julian Jaynes - The Origins of Conciousness in the breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Edward Tufte - Envisioning Information
Richard Dawkins - Blind Watchmaker
Richard Feynman - QED strange theory of light and matter - the best book on the subject anywhere
Terrence McKenna - food of the gods, true hallucinations, the invisiible landscape (a bit far out even for me that one)
Alexander Shulgin - PiHKAL, TiHKAL
The Psychedelics Encyclopaedia - ed.Stafford
O'Reilly computer books - the best by a stretch.

currently reading:
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - possibly the best SF book ever- reading it now for the umpteenth time

Envisioning Information - Edward R Tufte

O'Reilly Actionscripting for Flash MX - some nameless geek

Don't get the time to read these days but i used to read true ghost stories, Enfield polterguise and many others.
These days i don't read unless Cycling weekly counts.

Cataclysms of the Earth by Hugh Auckincloss Brown, it is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read.

Terry Pratchett is still one of my favourites since my first experience of Discworld back in 1991.
Although I still love reading DH Lawrence and George Orwell - everyone should read Down and Out in Paris and London.
Sounds cheesy student answer but Richard Bach, who most of you have probably heard of because of Johnathon Livingston Seagull, wrote wicked little book called 'Illusions of a Reluctant Messiah'. Also - another 30p charity shop favourite of mine is little gem called The Decievers by John Masters.
Phew.... think that's enough of that,

Re: Stupid White Men

Originally posted by Abby
Yes I read that a couple of months back. I got the UK version from the bargain bookstore on the Moor.

I thought it would make me laugh...but it made me flippin' angry instead!

Read "Captive State" by George Monbiot - sort of the british version, about the corruption of the Labour government and the scandals they've got away with... the stuff about the PFI, and corporate power in this country is especially scary stuff.

Bored of the Rings is pretty good if you like p*** take versions of well known books!

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Bored of the Rings is pretty good if you like p*** take versions of well known books!

:lol: I found it way more up it's own a**e than anything Tolkien could come up with. I just got it into my head that it was written by a bunch of rich red-brick uni students who thought they were a bit more clever than they were.:lol:

But then again, I'm a Tolkien fan...:P

The last thing I read was "All around the town" by Mary Higgins Clark. It's quite good actually, you get half way through the book and think "hmm... i know how this is going to end..." then the story rapidly changes direction, in a sense, and what you thought was going to happen, doesn't happen at all!

I'm currently reading "Anita and Me" by Meera Syal. I saw the Author on Graham Norton and couldn't resist reading the book! It's good too! Its just soooo.... British! hehe! :lol:

Originally posted by hiyabeing
Although I still love reading DH Lawrence and George Orwell - everyone should read Down and Out in Paris and London.

Down and Out in Paris and London is available here:

http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/orwell/orwelle16.pdf

As before, it's an Adobe Acrobat pdf file, so you'll need to right click the link and select save target as... to download to your computer. You will also need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file.

I have not yet read the book, but if anyone who has can confirm if the above link is an intact copy of the book, they will have earnt my undying gratitude (seriously, you will, and it's not like I just give it away for free :D )

Read stacks of aviation/pilot books. Currently reading "instrument flying" by Trevor thom.....so i can add rating to my licence. I can not stand fiction...it bores me senseless. :)

mein kampf is a good read

"mein kampf is a good read"

Didn't you find the author a little odd ?

:o

Originally posted by costessey
mein kampf is a good read
why? in what way?

seemed pretty normal to me...


...some very interesting ideas on population control